If you like superheroes and super powers you’ll love The Guardians Series: A Tale of Unexpected Super Heroes and Villains—one of the latest novel series I’m writing.

What is The Guardians?

Well, first off, it’s an upcoming LGBTQ+ superhero novel series. Today, there are three books planned for The Guardians

The Guardians is the story of Quinn McAlester and his best friend Blake Hargreaves, high school classmates who acquire super powers through a freak accident. Quinn is a mildly popular, in-the-closet gay and kindhearted guy who lacks the confidence to be himself wants to see his friends and classmates strive to live their best life. Blake is an unpopular student with an impatient attitude and short-fused temper who resents anyone who seems to have it easy in life. As time passes and their super powers grow, Quinn and Blake’s friendship crumbles and the boys must make difficult choices. In Stop Motion, an unsuspecting hero will rise above his insecurities and face unexpected challenges and heartbreak as he discovers just how dangerous super powers really are.

Want to be the first to read it?

The first people to read the chapter drafts will be the Alpha Reader members of my Advanced Reader Team.

An alpha reader is someone I trust who won’t mind reading the not-fully-polished draft. You’ll provide feedback by telling me what parts you loved and what parts you didn’t quite understand, which characters they adored and which characters felt underdeveloped. As an alpha reader, you’ll need to be kind but honest; someone who will encourage me to embark on my next stage of revisions and give me some helpful notes. You will receive credit in the final publication and a free paperback.

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Hello, Damien.
I started reading your books a while ago, and I do have to say I like the plot. Starting with “Accidental Awakening”, the story was about two teenage boys discovering their burgeoning powers and learning to harness them; while in “Unidentified Phenomenon”, it’s about their choosing how to utilize their abilities… the evil plot of The Order certainly feels authentic in their way of having connections in the medical and police fields, which would make it a battle against a powerful legion and society’s corrupted side. Victor’s trickster side is realistically and frighteningly authentic, especially at the end when I read he had a bug planted in one of the boys.

Waiting for your next book.

PS:

Have a few more questions that while I know you will not be able to answer fully due to writer professionalism, I would still like to ask you:

1. Is Blake the one who’s been planted a bug?
2. Will there be more allies in the near future? It would seem other than St. Germain and Camilla Brenhurst, there ain’t that many the moment.
3. Will we see more super-powered people in the next books?

Hi, Jay! Thank you so much for adding your thoughts. I’m very happy you’re enjoying the series and I hope the rest will prove as exciting for you. Book 3 is nearly complete and on schedule!

Here are some answers to your questions—as much as I can write without Book 3 hitting the Kindle ‘shelves’ yet.
1. #Spoilers. You’ll discover more in Book 3, The Rise of Dark Flame.
2. Yes! Things develop for both boys and the ‘s’ in Guardians becomes more clear.
3. Maybe… 🙂

I looked at the covers and titles of the last two Guardians books and began to wonder a few things.
I will not ask too many questions, but there is something I must express. Balance of Power. The cover caught my eye. I remember Quinn is the one with the blue eyes while Blake has orange, but this looks like the villain with both powers. So I have some theories about this: either Blake takes Quinn’s power somehow; Quinn becomes evil; or this is something completely new. No need to confirm my theories though. As an author myself, I understand and respect the prohibition of sharing a novel’s details.
Yes, you read it right. I have written books too.

Okay, I see. Me being the first may not be true though. I’m sure anyone who reads your books would’ve caught that easily.
And no, I don’t use a pen name. The reason is likely because I have only written two books with other authors so far, and my name fell into the back. If you wish so, I can give you the books’ titles.

They’re called “Keyhole Stories” and “Dead Ends”. One is about tenants in an apartment building discovering secrets one by one; the other is about a couple who died in a car crash and the people they leave behind

Oh, there is something else. While beta reading, I noticed something that made me suspect why Quinn and Blake were successfully empowered while other subjects failed. I don’t know if it really is the case, but one can have theories.

I have a movie called “Aliens in the Attic” where four aliens came to invade Earth and only a group of children were there to fight them. When the aliens fired mind-control plugs at them, the plugs failed but managed to take control of the kids’ grandmother and the eldest sister’s college-age boyfriend, so I was thinking perhaps the orgone energy transference had something to do with age. I mean, Ana Maria was barely 20 when she got her powers and the boys are teenagers.

Oh, and I want to ask, why did Ana Maria feel the need and reason to conceal her presence? She was the only successful test subject created, right? So why would she have thought about hiding herself?

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